Improvement in doors for carriages



the specification and drawings.

clip? W95 PHILIANDER LEEK, OF HART-FORD, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent N 0. 85,108, dated Deccmlm- 22, 18 68; antedated December 11, 1868 IIVIPROVEMIENEI IN DOORS FOR CARRIAG-ES, 8cc.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern: 1 Be it known that .I, PHILANDER LEEK, of Hartford, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and-useful Improvements in Landau-Carriage 3,001 or sash-support; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and Operation, by referring to the drawings, in which-the same letters indicate like 'parts in each of the figures.

The nature of this invention will be understood from The object of this invention is to provide a firm support for the window-sash, both at its upper and lower ends, while the door is open or closed, independent from the carriage-flame, so that it may be lifted from the boxing in the lower portion of the door, in the ordinary way, and be firmly supported in its. elevated or closed position at the upper and lower edges.

In the accompanying drawi'ngs Figure 1 is a side elevation of a carriage-door, hinged -to a portion of the framework of the body or top of a representsa portion of a frame for the body of a carriage.

b is a recess into which the supporter eis'compactly folded and firmly held by hinges or buts d. I

The upright or side of this window or sash-supporter e is formed with three sides, (back and two sides.) The width of the opening in the lower end is about the width of twice thethickness of the sash 0, while the width of the opening at the upper end is about equal to the thickness of the sash. The object of thisdiverging formation is for the purpose of allowing the sash to be lifted out of the boxing in the door, so that the upper edge or end will enter the top or horizontal portion of the supporter I, while the lower edge or end is pushed-sidewise into a recess suflicientto sustain or hold the sash from dropping back into the said boxing formed in the lower part of the door.

Thetwo parts,,c and f, are hinged together at g, fig. 3, so that the horizontal piece j will close into the part c when the sash is dropped into the boxing of the door. r

A. catch or spring, h,"issecured to the upright, e,

both to hold the part f open in a horizontal position,

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The combination of the two parts, 0 and f, with the catch or spring h, or its equivalent, and the frame-work a, constructed and operating substantially as described.

' PHILANDER LEEK. L.- 8.] Witnesses: I

E. W. Buss, JEREMY W. Bnrss.

near the union joint, which acts against the stud t,-

and to hold it in a closed position parallel with the What I claim, therefore, and desire to seci 1re by I 

